Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion
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Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion section of the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass. As such, our focus starts there and spreads to include Massachusetts, the nation and the world. Since successful blogs create communities of readers and writers, we hope the \x34& Co.\x34 will also come to include you.

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Nov. 16, 2012
12:01 a.m.

The Iraqi Government, which we spent so much blood and treasure to buy,has released terrorist and killer of American soldiers, Ali Mussa Daqduq. Here’s a quote from Abdul Mahdi al Mitairi as quoted in the Associated Press: “iraqi authorities decided to free the Hezbollah militant once U.S. elections were over….Iraqi officials did not want to embarrass President Barack Obama during his reelection campaign. “ You see, terrorists believe that Barack Hussein Obama is weak on terrorism, that he has no spine on foreign policy, that his first term was very favorable to American enemies, and those who fear the power and resolve of the United States had more to fear from Romney than from Obama, who has a four year track record of weakness, indecision and waffling. He’s been successfully duped. So a Hezbollah terrorist who killed Americans has been released by our friends in the Iraqi government, and they made sure they did it in a way that Romney wouldn’t be able to reveal the weakness of this administration in dealing with our enemies. Hope all the Jews who voted for Obama are feeling comfortable with sending a terrorist mastermind back to Lebanon, and I guess the rest of you must be mighty proud of this example of the success of the Arab Spring.